Instead of helping to improve Yoast SEO, this author breaks it

The single most important feature of Yoast SEO is the content analysis

The users of this plugin (and the two five star reviews) might suggest that lots of people value the other features (open graph and other social meta, XML sitemaps, RSS footers, webmaster tools, breadcrumbs, etc.) more.

And as someone who does value the content analysis feature for my own sites, I’m still considering installing this on all my client websites because the admin notifications, tool tips, and that darn traffic light in the Publish metabox detract from their admin experience more than the content analysis feature helps.

While there were lots of fantastic improvements to Yoast SEO in 3.X, the UI became less “WordPress-y” and has made me go looking for ways to hide it from my clients.

There are lots of people on GitHub trying to help, but the silence from the Yoast SEO developers in threads like those has lead to my growing frustration with the plugin and had me searching for 3rd-party ways to see the changes I want.

I really hope you can consider responding to plugins like this productively with improvements to the Yoast SEO interface, rather than giving a 1-star review because you don’t like the features a plugin offers (not that it doesn’t work).

Well I agree Joost on this since that is the only reason newbies install yoast plugin .
for me it doesn’t matter as I using my theme codes do do all SEO I need without throttling my site resources

I agree with Mark, Why is it so hard to stick with WP branding and layout? WP did all the work just copy and paste…

The issue is that WordPress is being used more and more as a CMS. People are adding different blocks of content to pages in more and more ways. Plugins like Pods and Advanced Custom Fields are allowing people to be more flexible with their content blocks. We had to come up with something for that.

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Joost de Valk

Being a little modest, don’t you think?

Joost, you can do with your plugin as you please, you are the author and have done tremendous goods for the community.

Yet you have to acknowledge if other users don’t rely on the content analysis feature and want to have it removed, together with other stuff they don’t like about your plugin. That’s just fair and square. (under the given license terms)

So your 1-star review leaves a bad taste.
I would have welcomed this plugin and might have stuck with yoast seo but have yet moved on to wpSEO, which is a paid plugin, but works tremendously well and was worth the investment.

Maybe consider the development of a plugin that gets rid of some of your features as a hint to offer the option to disable some functionalities of yoast seo.